Consumables-Substrates - Paper

With the ability to track, locate and sense, Active RFID is being rapidly adopted around the World, often creating new markets. Many adopters have reported a rapid return on investment (ROI) of 12 to 18 months which is leading to active RFID being a $6.78 billion market in 2016. Here Dan Lawrence summarizes the topic for the forthcoming IDTechEx Active RFID Summit event. The use of Active RFID is growing rapidly, providing the ability to track, locate and sense. The subject includes real time locating systems (RTLS) to track assets and people in real time; near field communication (NFC) enabling mobile phones to act as

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands—AWA Alexander Watson Associates, an international publishing and market research company for the label market, has published the AWAreness Report Global Glue Applied Label Market & Technology Review. The principal objective of the AWAreness report to provide a comprehensive background and understanding of the global glue-applied label market through 2010, to describe the current trends in volume growth and materials technology by region, and to identify the main drivers for these trends. The report also identifies the challenges and opportunities that are available within the market and highlights the geographic and market segmentation where competition is highest, or where opportunity is greatest.

Acpo Offers clear, matte, thermal transfer printable, UL registered, easy release and UV resistant polyesters. Write 993, Visit www.acpo.com Acucote A founding member of The Brand Protection Alliance and member of NASPO and the CACP. Write 994, www.acucote.com AET Films Provider of flexible packaging, product labeling, consumer packaging, and graphic media films. Write 995, aetfilms.com Alufoil Products Co. Offers laminated foils, available in text weights from 15 lb. through 80 lb., and in cover weights. Write 996, www.alufoil.com API Foils Hot stamping foils and supplies: metallic, pigment, pearl, specialty, and holographic foils. Write 997, www.

It’s an important and sometimes complicated material category in label printing—release liners—one which can have a big impact in the operations of both label printers/converters and their customers, the consumer products companies. For label converters, the substrate/release liner combination needs to provide a reliable surface so the diecut strike-through cuts the label completely, yet does not cut or weaken the liner below. This has to be done consistently over the course of a label run of thousands and thousands of times. Once the labels get on the customer’s packaging line, the precision and consistency of this operation will quickly be seen.

With competition from alternate decorating methods on the rise, paper holds its own in the label market. THERE'S GOT TO be more certainties out there than death and taxes, life is just too short. In the context of package printing, one thing for certain is that converters are continually being asked to print and deliver labels with quicker and quicker turnarounds. Knowing this as a constant in the formula of faster = better, printers are in a never-ending search for materials, equipment, and processes that will enhance their capabilities. For materials, statistics show that it's not always what's new that is better, as

Suppliers report on the most sought-after paper materials, and the high-profile, high-demand label jobs they're landing. By Jessica Millward, Associate Editor Though it is the big daddy of label production substrates, paper's capacity for surprises is sometimes overlooked. Films and foils may generate more headlines, but, as the development of smart labels alone illustrates (see below), paper materials certainly have a few tricks up the sleeve. Case #1: Disappearing act Avery Dennison, through its Fasson Roll North America division, set out to construct a label specifically meant not to last. Business Manager, Specialty Division John Mehrige says the company recognized the virtue in